PREDICTING ROLE OF ALEXITHYMIA AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MEDICINAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND COMBINED (MEDICINAL-MOTIVATIONAL) TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Substance use disorder is one of the most common and chronic disorders that causes a great burden for the patient and the society. The aim of present study was to examine the predicting role of alexithymia and perceived social support in medicinal, motivational and combined (medicinal-motivational) treatment of substance use disorder. One hundred and eighty substance abuser was selected conveniencely and was assigned to three groups of medicinal, motivational and combined (medicinal-motivational) treatment randomly. Participants were asked to complete The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (PSSS-12) and Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS-20) before treatment. After treatment forty five, thirty nine and forty five participants was remain in each groups, respectively.Method of the both descriptive and inferential statistics including means, standard deviations, correlation and regression analysis. Result show that alexithymia can predict medicinal treatment whereas cannot predict motivational and combined treatment after three and six months. Also perceived social support can predict medicinal, motivational and combined (medicinal-motivational) treatment after three and six months. Considering these variable can be effective in preventing, diagnosis and treatment of addiction.